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The Beginnings of Science and Philosophy in Archaic Greece
In Sean D. Kirkland & Eric Sanday (eds.), A Companion to Ancient Philosophy. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press. pp. 1–19 (2018)
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This chapter contains sections titled: Homer and Hesiod: A Pre‐scientific Conception of the World Innovation at Miletus: Aristotle on Thales His New Style of Cosmology The Theoretical Enterprise Unfolds: A Post‐Aristotelian Interpretation Theoretical Reflections on the Limits and Presuppositions of Cosmology: The Origins of Greek Philosophy Questions and Disputes Bibliography.
Early Greek Philosophy beginnings of science and philosophy in Archaic Greece the Homeric‐Hesiodic world‐view, two features gods as central to the intelligibility of the world Hesiod's Theogony, the world in terms of anthropomorphic gods Homeric‐Hesiodic world‐view, opened to challenge gods of Homer and Hesiod, of traditional Greek belief, humanly credible new kind of theoretical entity, and unrestricted general reasonings Aristotle on pre‐theoretical in Homer and Hesiod style, as essentially incomplete “Teleology”, studying the ancient world, as a modern understanding of things
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